I think these days many Dems are in hiding because of the loonies loudly claiming to be dems

Where's the hospital?

I'm not in hiding, I just make it clear I'm a centrist

Oregon, but not Portland

If a Dem speaks up and doesn't agree with the fringe they are attacked for "Not being a real liberal"

Let's just say I live in quite literally the reddest place in Oregon you can find with a population over 50,000 people

That would make sense.

Interesting. In my experience if you go around with the demographic ratios of a place and count, say, bumper stickers. The left is generally highly overrepresented.

Which is what I mean.

Isn't Oregon one of the states with actual, for real racists in the sticks?

@Khanclansith , been there. I am not welcome at my alma mater after my speech as the keynote address at the 2011 GLBT graduation celebration.

Small populations and rurral areas tend to more concertaive as a general rule.

IMO I think workplaces should steer towards discouraging politics again

I don't think that's going to work immediately though.

I steer toward discouraging political discussion

That's the ideal solution, but there's a large contingent that feels it's a moral right to be open at all times.

We prepare for shootings and I have laid down the smack a few times when people have started down discussions about guns

@DrYuriMom Yeah. That's why I declare myself an Offensive Moderate. I am in the middle and offend everyone!

*highfives Khanclansith*

I've tried chasing politics out of chat boards and stuff for being off topic and the same people always come back poking and looking to politicize everything. It's universally the left in my experience.

Particularly the far left.

I try to hold incredibly extreme views as politely as possible.

My staff are mostly Republicans so I have to be careful. I let my apolitical mask drop the day after the 2016 election when i was practically hyperventilating in panic and I'm still working to recover trust. I just snapped about what it would mean for my family - it was a bad day. 😕

I think I'm your mirror image. I just went home early.

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How is your family?

We have some Dems who go on about gun control and I've stopped them a few times. It's just best not to talk about it at work.

Agreed.

If only it could be enforced.

Im curios now, have your co-workers expressed their attitudes towards milo?

My family is doing fine. Oregon is pretty good with GLBT acceptance, hence why I live here and won't leave.

But I do worry where things will go now that the judiciary is changing.

That's good.

I don't think it's going to change.

Glad you are doing good

I will be quite curious to see where things land

What I can see, there is no plans to attack Rainbow rights. Rather the plan is to keep them on par with everyone else.

There's actually a rising "we don't care if they'd leave us alone" movement in the churches as I can tell.

So far, to the best of my knowledge, both new supreme court justices have a track record of maintaining to the rule of law as written and intended to the best of their understanding.

By any means, Obergefell would need to be directly challenged to be overturned.

I think it'll become permissible to discriminate and I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing (yes, I'm a traitor to my class for saying this)